> --- Gil Guillory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... I think there's something to > > Hoppe's and von Kuehnelt-Leddihn's arguments that monarchy > is superior > > to democracy with regard to this general problem of what we might > > euphemistically call the externalities of war. > > Does World War I and its initiation by the monarchies of > Germany, Austria, Turkey, the UK and Russia, fit this? Fred Foldvary
Yes. But the question is not whether monarchies can or did start, or engage in, war (they did). The question is to compare monarchies and democracies and their behaviors with respect to war: how easily war is entered into, for what reasons, the viciousness of their wars, the degree of destruction, how they are ended, how good the peace is afterward, etc. Kuehnelt-Leddihn's points are mainly historical, Hoppe's are mainly theoretical. Kuehnelt-Leddihn's article "Monarchy and War" from the JLS is webbed: http://www.mises.org/journals/jls/15_1/15_1_1.pdf -gil
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